Poems (Elliott)/War
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War
Let loose the Dogs of War! America
Has held in leash too long the hell-hound pack
Which foams and frets and trembles to be gone!
Our honor stem demands that war shall cease
Our own and that of lands across the sea.
Now is the time when human brotherhood
Shall demonstrate the strength of Unity.
Close-bound in the good God's great righteous cause
Shall slay the Demon and once more be free.
Since we must enter in the Great Conflict
Then let us do so with the Spirit which
Great Shakespeare recommends, "so bearing it
That our opponent may beware" of us,
Hide his diminished head, and slink away!
Has held in leash too long the hell-hound pack
Which foams and frets and trembles to be gone!
Our honor stem demands that war shall cease
Our own and that of lands across the sea.
Now is the time when human brotherhood
Shall demonstrate the strength of Unity.
Close-bound in the good God's great righteous cause
Shall slay the Demon and once more be free.
Since we must enter in the Great Conflict
Then let us do so with the Spirit which
Great Shakespeare recommends, "so bearing it
That our opponent may beware" of us,
Hide his diminished head, and slink away!